He remembered the way her eyes lit up when she wasn't bitching. He remembered her light-the-room-up smile from before Sam. He also remembered how cruel she could be, and how cruel she had been to Bella. She was his Beta, his companion.
She remembered his easy-going nature. She remembered his pain, along with her own. She remembered how he had tried to understand what she was going through. He was her Alpha, and the man she was in love with.
They fought constantly, but there wasn't a doubt in either of their minds that they would end up together. They were simply meant to be.
Until that fateful day he imprinted.